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7.6.2. Useful Websites
• http://www.xfree86.org — Home page of the XFree86 project, which produces the XFree86 open
source version of the X Window System. XFree86 is bundled with Red Hat Linux to control the
necessary hardware and provide a GUI environment.
• http://dri.sourceforge.net — Home page of the DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) project. The
DRI is the core hardware 3D acceleration component of XFree86, and their website proves various
resources that may prove helpful.
• http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO — A HOWTO document detail-
ing the manual installation and custom configuration of XFree86.
• http://www.gnome.org — The home of the GNOME project.
• http://www.kde.org — The home of the KDE desktop environment.
7.6.3. Related Books
• The Concise Guide to XFree86 for Linux by Aron Hsiao; Que — Provides an expert’s view con-
cerning the operation of XFree86 on Linux systems.
• The New XFree86 by Bill Ball; Prima Publishing — Provides a good, overall look at XFree86 and
its relationship with the popular desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE.
• Beginning GTK+ and GNOME by Peter Wright; Wrox Press, Inc. — Introduces programmers to
the GNOME architecture, showing them how to get started with GTK+.
• GTK+/GNOME Application Development by Havoc Pennington; New Riders Publishing — An
advanced look into the heart of GTK+ programming, focusing on sample code and a thorough look
at the APIs available.
• KDE 2.0 Development by David Sweet and Matthias Ettrich; Sams Publishing — Instructs be-
ginning and advanced developers in how to take advantage of the many environment guidelines
required to built QT applications for KDE.
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